Abstract

This study investigated the determinants of entrepreneurial intention, namely entrepreneurial self-efficacy, risk propensity, innovativeness, tolerance to ambiguity, individualism, collectivism and power distance and also the mediating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy among school students in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey was used to collect the data, and purposive sampling was employed. A total of 351 students from the state of Johor, Malaysia, were involved and this study used Smart-PLS 3.0 to analyze the data. The results showed that collectivism and power distance had an insignificant relationship with entrepreneurial intention. Meanwhile, entrepreneurial self-efficacy was found to have a partial mediating effect on the relationship between risk propensity and entrepreneurial intention.

摘要

本研究调查了创业意愿的决定因素，即创业自我效能感、风险倾向、创新性、对歧义的容忍度、个人主义、集体主义和权力距离，以及创业自我效能感在马来西亚学生中的中介作用。采用问卷调查收集数据，并采用有目的的抽样。共有来自马来西亚柔佛州的 351 名学生参与，本研究使用 Smart-PLS 3.0 来分析数据。结果表明，集体主义和权力距离与创业意愿的关系不显着。同时，发现创业自我效能感对风险倾向与创业意愿之间的关系有部分中介作用。